Van Jones

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (20 September 1968-) was an American political commentator and activist.

Biography
Anthony Kapel Jones was born in Jackson, Tennessee in 1968, and he idolized John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. as a child. After graduating from law school in 1993, he briefly became a radical left and Marxist activist in San Francisco, and, in 1995, he founded the Bay Area Police Watch to combat police brutality. He initially focused on racial injustice, but, by 2005, he also began to advocate for environmental justice and green capitalism, and he published his first book - The Green Collar Economy - in 2008. In 2009, he became President Barack Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, and he went on to become a prominent progressive news commentator on CNN, co-hosting Crossfire.